Birds in Nairobi National Park

Birds in Nairobi National Park : Nairobi national park is not only the world’s only wildlife park found in a city but also an important Birding Area (IBA) in Kenya, with over 520 recorded bird species, the park is one of the best sites to visit for Kenya birding safaris.

Nairobi national park hosts  one of the 8 species of Kenya Mountains Endemic Bird Area, 27 species of the 4  Somali – Masai Biome  and 25 species of the 67 African Highlands biome that occur in Kenya.

Here are the birds in Nairobi national park

STRUTHIONIFORMES: Struthionidae

  • Common Ostrich

ANSERIFORMES: Anatidae

  • White-faced Whistling-Duck
  • Fulvous Whistling-Duck
  • White-backed Duck
  • Knob-billed Duck
  • Egyptian Goose
  • Spur-winged Goose
Birds in Nairobi National Park
Spur-winged Goose
  • Garganey
  • Blue-billed Teal
  • Northern Shoveler
  • African Black Duck
  • Yellow-billed Duck
  • Cape Teal
  • Red-billed Duck
  • Northern Pintail
  • Green-winged Teal
  • Southern Pochard

GALLIFORMES: Numididae

  • Helmeted Guineafowl

GALLIFORMES: Phasianidae

  • Crested Francolin
  • Coqui Francolin
  • Shelley’s Francolin
  • Common Quail
  • Harlequin Quail
  • Hildebrandt’s Francolin
  • Scaly Francolin
  • Yellow-necked Francolin

PHOENICOPTERIFORMES: Phoenicopteridae

  • Greater Flamingo
  • Lesser Flamingo

PODICIPEDIFORMES: Podicipedidae

  • Little Grebe
  • Eared Grebe

COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae

  • Speckled Pigeon
  • Rameron Pigeon
  • Lemon Dove
  • Dusky Turtle-Dove
  • Red-eyed Dove
  • Ring-necked Dove
  • Laughing Dove
  • Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
  • Tambourine Dove
  • Namaqua Dove
  • African Green-Pigeon

PTEROCLIFORMES: Pteroclidae

  • Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
  • Black-faced Sandgrouse

OTIDIFORMES: Otididae

  • Kori Bustard
  • White-bellied Bustard
Birds in Nairobi National Park
White-bellied Bustard
  • Black-bellied Bustard
  • Hartlaub’s Bustard

MUSOPHAGIFORMES: Musophagidae

  • Hartlaub’s Turaco
  • White-bellied Go-away-bird

CUCULIFORMES: Cuculidae

  • White-browed Coucal
  • Black Coucal
  • Great Spotted Cuckoo
  • Levaillant’s Cuckoo
  • Pied Cuckoo
  • Thick-billed Cuckoo
  • Dideric Cuckoo
  • Klaas’s Cuckoo
  • African Emerald Cuckoo
  • Black Cuckoo
  • Red-chested Cuckoo
  • African Cuckoo
  • Common Cuckoo

CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Caprimulgidae

  • Eurasian Nightjar
  • Sombre Nightjar
  • Abyssinian Nightjar
  • Plain Nightjar

CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Apodidae

  • Mottled Swift
  • Common Swift
  • Nyanza Swift
  • African Swift
  • Little Swift
  • Horus Swift
  • White-rumped Swift
  • African Palm-Swift

GRUIFORMES: Sarothruridae

  • Streaky-breasted Flufftail

GRUIFORMES: Rallidae

  • African Rail
  • Corn Crake
  • African Crake
  • Lesser Moorhen
  • Eurasian Moorhen
  • Red-knobbed Coot
  • African Swamphen
  • Striped Crake
  • Black Crake

GRUIFORMES: Heliornithidae

  • African Finfoot

GRUIFORMES: Gruidae

  • Gray Crowned-Crane

CHARADRIIFORMES: Burhinidae

  • Water Thick-knee
  • Spotted Thick-knee

CHARADRIIFORMES: Recurvirostridae

  • Black-winged Stilt
  • Pied Avocet

CHARADRIIFORMES: Charadriidae

  • Pacific Golden-Plover
  • Long-toed Lapwing
  • Blacksmith Lapwing
  • Spur-winged Lapwing
  • Black-winged Lapwing
  • Crowned Lapwing
  • Lesser Sand-Plover
  • Caspian Plover
  • Kittlitz’s Plover
  • Common Ringed Plover
  • Little Ringed Plover
  • Three-banded Plover
  • Chestnut-banded Plover

CHARADRIIFORMES: Rostratulidae

  • Greater Painted-Snipe

CHARADRIIFORMES: Jacanidae

  • African Jacana

CHARADRIIFORMES: Scolopacidae

  • Black-tailed Godwit
  • Ruff
  • Curlew Sandpiper
  • Temminck’s Stint
  • Sanderling
  • Little Stint
  • Pectoral Sandpiper
  • Great Snipe
  • Common Snipe
  • African Snipe
Birds in Nairobi National Park
African Snipe
  • Common Sandpiper
  • Green Sandpiper
  • Spotted Redshank
  • Common Greenshank
  • Marsh Sandpiper
  • Wood Sandpiper

CHARADRIIFORMES: Turnicidae

  • Small Buttonquail

CHARADRIIFORMES: Glareolidae

  • Temminck’s Courser
  • Bronze-winged Courser
  • Collared Pratincole

CHARADRIIFORMES: Laridae

  • Gray-hooded Gull
  • Black-headed Gull
  • Gull-billed Tern
  • White-winged Tern
  • Whiskered Tern
  • African Skimmer

CICONIIFORMES: Ciconiidae

  • African Openbill
  • Black Stork
  • Abdim’s Stork
  • Woolly-necked Stork
  • White Stork
  • Saddle-billed Stork
  • Marabou Stork
  • Yellow-billed Stork

SULIFORMES: Anhingidae

  • African Darter

SULIFORMES: Phalacrocoracidae

  • Long-tailed Cormorant
  • Great Cormorant

PELECANIFORMES: Pelecanidae

  • Great White Pelican
  • Pink-backed Pelican

PELECANIFORMES: Scopidae

  • Hamerkop

PELECANIFORMES: Ardeidae

  • Little Bittern
  • Dwarf Bittern
  • Gray Heron
  • Black-headed Heron
  • Goliath Heron
  • Purple Heron
  • Great Egret
  • Intermediate Egret
  • Little Egret
  • Western Reef-Heron
  • Cattle Egret
  • Squacco Heron
  • Malagasy Pond-Heron
  • Striated Heron
  • Black-crowned Night-Heron
  • White-backed Night-Heron

PELECANIFORMES: Threskiornithidae

  • Glossy Ibis
  • African Sacred Ibis
  • Hadada Ibis
  • African Spoonbill

ACCIPITRIFORMES: Sagittariidae

  • Secretarybird

ACCIPITRIFORMES: Pandionidae

  • Osprey

ACCIPITRIFORMES: Accipitridae

  • Black-winged Kite
  • African Harrier-Hawk
  • Palm-nut Vulture
  • Egyptian Vulture
  • European Honey-buzzard
  • African Cuckoo-Hawk
  • White-headed Vulture
  • Lappet-faced Vulture
  • Hooded Vulture
  • White-backed Vulture
  • Rüppell’s Griffon
  • Bateleur
  • Black-chested Snake-Eagle
  • Brown Snake-Eagle
  • Crowned Eagle
  • Martial Eagle
  • Long-crested Eagle
  • Lesser Spotted Eagle
  • Greater Spotted Eagle
  • Wahlberg’s Eagle
  • Booted Eagle
  • Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle
  • Tawny Eagle
Birds in Nairobi National Park
Tawny Eagle
  • Steppe Eagle
  • Imperial Eagle
  • Verreaux’s Eagle
  • African Hawk-Eagle
  • Lizard Buzzard
  • Eastern Chanting-Goshawk
  • Gabar Goshawk
  • Grasshopper Buzzard
  • Eurasian Marsh-Harrier
  • African Marsh-Harrier
  • Pallid Harrier
  • Montagu’s Harrier
  • African Goshawk
  • Shikra
  • Little Sparrowhawk
  • Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk
  • Black Goshawk
  • Black Kite
  • African Fish-Eagle
  • Common Buzzard
  • Long-legged Buzzard
  • Augur Buzzard

STRIGIFORMES: Tytonidae

  • Barn Owl

STRIGIFORMES: Strigidae

  • Eurasian Scops-Owl
  • Spotted Eagle-Owl
  • Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl
  • Pearl-spotted Owlet
  • African Wood-Owl
  • Marsh Owl

COLIIFORMES: Coliidae

  • Speckled Mousebird
  • Blue-naped Mousebird

TROGONIFORMES: Trogonidae

  • Narina Trogon

BUCEROTIFORMES: Upupidae

  • Eurasian Hoopoe

BUCEROTIFORMES: Phoeniculidae

  • Violet Woodhoopoe
  • White-headed Woodhoopoe
  • Common Scimitarbill
  • Abyssinian Scimitarbill

BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucorvidae

  • Southern Ground-Hornbill

BUCEROTIFORMES: Bucerotidae

  • African Gray Hornbill
  • Von der Decken’s Hornbill
  • Northern Red-billed Hornbill
  • Silvery-cheeked Hornbill

CORACIIFORMES: Alcedinidae

  • Malachite Kingfisher
  • African Pygmy Kingfisher
  • Gray-headed Kingfisher
  • Striped Kingfisher
  • Giant Kingfisher
  • Pied Kingfisher

 

CORACIIFORMES: Meropidae

  • Little Bee-eater
  • Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
  • White-throated Bee-eater
  • Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
  • Madagascar Bee-eater
  • European Bee-eater
  • Northern Carmine Bee-eater

CORACIIFORMES: Coraciidae

  • European Roller
  • Abyssinian Roller
  • Lilac-breasted Roller
  • Rufous-crowned Roller
  • Broad-billed Roller

PICIFORMES: Lybiidae

  • Red-and-yellow Barbet
  • D’Arnaud’s Barbet
  • Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
  • Red-fronted Tinkerbird
  • Red-fronted Barbet
  • Spot-flanked Barbet
  • Black-throated Barbet
  • White-headed Barbet

PICIFORMES: Indicatoridae

  • Green-backed Honeyguide
  • Wahlberg’s Honeyguide
  • Pallid Honeyguide
  • Lesser Honeyguide
  • Scaly-throated Honeyguide
  • Greater Honeyguide

PICIFORMES: Picidae

  • Eurasian Wryneck
  • Rufous-necked Wryneck
  • Cardinal Woodpecker
  • Bearded Woodpecker
  • Brown-backed Woodpecker
  • Mountain Gray Woodpecker
  • Nubian Woodpecker
  • Golden-tailed Woodpecker

FALCONIFORMES: Falconidae

  • Pygmy Falcon
  • Lesser Kestrel
  • Eurasian Kestrel
  • Greater Kestrel
  • Red-footed Falcon
  • Amur Falcon
  • Sooty Falcon
  • Eurasian Hobby
  • African Hobby
  • Lanner Falcon
  • Peregrine Falcon

PSITTACIFORMES: Psittacidae

  • Meyer’s Parrot

PASSERIFORMES: Campephagidae

  • Gray Cuckooshrike
  • Black Cuckooshrike

PASSERIFORMES: Oriolidae

  • Eurasian Golden Oriole
  • African Golden Oriole
  • African Black-headed Oriole

PASSERIFORMES: Platysteiridae

  • Chinspot Batis

PASSERIFORMES: Vangidae

  • White Helmetshrike

PASSERIFORMES: Malaconotidae

  • Brubru
  • Black-backed Puffback
  • Black-crowned Tchagra
  • Brown-crowned Tchagra
  • Tropical Boubou
  • Slate-colored Boubou
  • Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
  • Gray-headed Bushshrike

PASSERIFORMES: Dicruridae

  • Fork-tailed Drongo

PASSERIFORMES: Monarchidae

  • African Paradise-Flycatcher

PASSERIFORMES: Laniidae

  • Red-backed Shrike
  • Red-tailed Shrike
  • Isabelline Shrike
Isabelline Shrike
Isabelline Shrike
  • Lesser Gray Shrike
  • Long-tailed Fiscal
  • Taita Fiscal
  • Northern Fiscal
  • White-rumped Shrike

PASSERIFORMES: Corvidae

  • Cape Crow
  • Pied Crow

PASSERIFORMES: Paridae

Birds in Nairobi National Park

  • White-bellied Tit
  • Red-throated Tit

PASSERIFORMES: Remizidae

  • African Penduline-Tit

PASSERIFORMES: Alaudidae

  • Fischer’s Sparrow-Lar
  • Foxy Lark
  • Rufous-naped Lark
  • White-tailed Lark
  • Singing Bushlark
  • Red-capped Lark
  • Somali Short-toed Lark
  • Short-tailed Lark

PASSERIFORMES: Macrosphenidae

  • Red-faced Crombec
  • Moustached Grass-Warbler

PASSERIFORMES: Cisticolidae

  • Yellow-bellied Eremomela
  • Black-collared Apalis
  • Green-backed Camaroptera
  • Buff-bellied Warbler
  • Yellow-breasted Apalis
  • Gray Apalis
  • Tawny-flanked Prinia
  • Gray-capped Warbler
  • Red-faced Cisticola
  • Singing Cisticola
  • Rattling Cisticola
  • Winding Cisticola
  • Stout Cisticola
  • Croaking Cisticola
  • Siffling Cisticola
  • Zitting Cisticola
  • Desert Cisticola
  • Pectoral-patch Cisticola

PASSERIFORMES: Acrocephalidae

  • Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
  • African Yellow-Warbler
  • Upcher’s Warbler
  • Icterine Warbler
  • Sedge Warbler
  • Marsh Warbler
  • Eurasian Reed Warbler
  • Basra Reed Warbler
  • Lesser Swamp Warbler
  • Great Reed Warbler

PASSERIFORMES: Locustellidae

  • Fan-tailed Grassbird
  • Highland Rush Warbler

PASSERIFORMES: Hirundinidae

Birds in Nairobi National Park

  • Plain Martin
  • Bank Swallow
  • Banded Martin
  • Rock Martin
  • Barn Swallow
  • Angola Swallow
  • Wire-tailed Swallow
  • Red-rumped Swallow
  • Lesser Striped Swallow
  • Mosque Swallow
  • Common House-Martin
  • White-headed Sawwing
  • Black Sawwing
  • Gray-rumped Swallow

PASSERIFORMES: Pycnonotidae

  • Sombre Greenbul
  • Yellow-bellied Greenbul
  • Yellow-whiskered Greenbul
  • Northern Brownbul
  • Gray-olive Greenbul
  • Cabanis’s Greenbul
  • Common Bulbul

PASSERIFORMES: Phylloscopidae

  • Wood Warbler
  • Willow Warbler

PASSERIFORMES: Sylviidae

  • Eurasian Blackcap
  • Garden Warbler
  • Barred Warbler
  • Banded Parisoma
  • Brown Parisoma
  • Greater Whitethroat

PASSERIFORMES: Zosteropidae

  • Pale White-eye
  • Kikuyu White-eye
  • Northern Yellow White-eye

PASSERIFORMES: Leiothrichidae

  • Rufous Chatterer
  • Northern Pied-Babbler

PASSERIFORMES: Buphagidae

  • Red-billed Oxpecker
  • Yellow-billed Oxpecker

PASSERIFORMES: Sturnidae

  • Wattled Starling
  • Rosy Starling
  • Violet-backed Starling
  • Red-winged Starling
  • Sharpe’s Starling
  • Hildebrandt’s Starling
  • Rüppell’s Starling
  • Superb Starling
  • Greater Blue-eared Starling

PASSERIFORMES: Turdidae

  • Abyssinian Thrush

PASSERIFORMES: Muscicapidae

  • African Dusky Flycatcher
  • Spotted Flycatcher
  • African Gray Flycatcher
  • Pale Flycatcher
  • Southern Black-Flycatcher
  • White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher
  • Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin
  • Brown-backed Scrub-Robin
  • Red-backed Scrub-Robin
  • Cape Robin-Chat
  • Rüppell’s Robin-Chat
  • Spotted Morning-Thrush
  • White-starred Robin
  • White-throated Robin
  • Thrush Nightingale
  • Common Nightingale
  • Common Redstart
  • Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush
  • Whinchat
  • African Stonechat
  • Mocking Cliff-Chat
  • Northern Anteater-Chat
  • Northern Wheatear
  • Capped Wheatear
  • Isabelline Wheatear
  • Pied Wheatear

PASSERIFORMES: Nectariniidae

  • Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird
  • Collared Sunbird
  • Green-headed Sunbird
  • Amethyst Sunbird
  • Scarlet-chested Sunbird
  • Bronze Sunbird
  • Malachite Sunbird
  • Golden-winged Sunbird
  • Northern Double-collared Sunbird
  • Eastern Double-collared Sunbird
  • Beautiful Sunbird
  • Mariqua Sunbird
  • Variable Sunbird

PASSERIFORMES: Ploceidae

  • Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver
  • White-headed Buffalo-Weaver
  • Speckle-fronted Weaver
  • White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
  • Gray-headed Social-Weaver
Gray-headed Social-Weaver
Gray-headed Social-Weaver
  • Red-headed Weaver
  • Baglafecht Weaver
  • Spectacled Weaver
  • Holub’s Golden-Weaver
  • Lesser Masked-Weaver
  • Vitelline Masked-Weaver
  • Speke’s Weaver
  • Village Weaver
  • Black-headed Weaver
  • Chestnut Weaver
  • Cardinal Quelea
  • Red-billed Quelea
  • Southern Red Bishop
  • Yellow-crowned Bishop
  • Yellow Bishop
  • White-winged Widowbird
  • Red-collared Widowbird
  • Jackson’s Widowbird
  • Grosbeak Weaver

PASSERIFORMES: Estrildidae

Gray-headed Silverbill

  • Bronze Mannikin
  • Black-and-white Mannikin
  • African Silverbill
  • Yellow-bellied Waxbill
  • Black-faced Waxbill
  • Common Waxbill
  • Crimson-rumped Waxbill
  • Quailfinch
  • Cut-throat
  • Zebra Waxbill
  • Purple Grenadier
  • Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
  • Blue-capped Cordonbleu
  • Green-winged Pytilia
  • Red-billed Firefinch
  • African Firefinch

PASSERIFORMES: Viduidae

Birds in Nairobi National Park

  • Pin-tailed Whydah
  • Eastern Paradise-Whydah
  • Steel-blue Whydah
  • Straw-tailed Whydah
  • Village Indigobird
  • Parasitic Weaver

PASSERIFORMES: Passeridae

  • House Sparrow
  • Kenya Rufous Sparrow
  • Parrot-billed Sparrow
  • Chestnut Sparrow
  • Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow

PASSERIFORMES: Motacillidae

  • Cape Wagtail
  • Mountain Wagtail
  • Western Yellow Wagtail
  • African Pied Wagtail
  • African Pipit
  • Long-billed Pipit
  • Tree Pipit
  • Red-throated Pipit
  • Yellow-throated Longclaw
  • Pangani Longclaw
  • Rosy-throated Longclaw

PASSERIFORMES: Fringillidae

  • African Citril
  • Western Citril
  • Reichenow’s Seedeater
  • White-bellied Canary
  • Southern Grosbeak-Canary
  • Brimstone Canary
  • Streaky Seedeater
  • Yellow-crowned Canary

PASSERIFORMES: Emberizidae

  • Golden-breasted Bunting
  • Somali Bunting
  • Cinnamon-breasted Bunting

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